[Openicc] CUPS Color Management under Linux gets into distros

[Hal V. Engel]

On Friday, March 04, 2011 06:31:51 AM Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> On 3/4/11, Cyrille Berger Skott wrote:
> >> I mean, come on, even Audacity has simplistic printing, and it's
> >> a multitrack audio editor.
> > 
> > Makes me wonder what it prints :)
> 
> Sonograms are not so uncommon in applied linguistics :)
> 
> > Here is a realistict workflow:
> > 
> > * artist paint image in "cool drawing/painting application"
> > * artist send image to print worker
> > * print worker print image using "cool printing application"
> > 
> > You might even insert in the workflow:
> > * artist send image to editor/layouter (not sure how about the proper
> > name in
> > english ;) )
> > * layouter put the image in a book/newspaper/magazine using "cool
> > layouting application"
> > * layouter send book/newspaper/magazine to print worker
> 
> OK, point taken.
> 
> > And that last point is important, and it is why we were considering
> > removing the print option. Printing is somehow related to
> > drawing/painting. It is one of the possible goal of the artist work.
> > Similary, I would find it weird if PhotoPrint would get a brush engine,
> > it is not something a print worker needs to print the resulting images.
> 
> Now that's unfair analogy :)
> 
> >> > We even have people who get
> >> > confused because most image viewer don't use the profile and the
> >> > image looks different than in Krita.
> >> 
> >> Tell them to use proper viewers then :)
> > 
> > Is there any proper viewers other than graphics/imagemagick?
> 
> In KDE? :) Gwenview isn't color managed?
 
I don't think it is.

> Or maybe digiKam isn't color managed? :)

Yes it is if the user has set things up.

> 
> Or you mean GNOME with its bundled EoG which supports reading X's ICC
> atom since 2007 or so, or F-Spot that has basic color management since
> 2008 or 2009?
> 
> I do genuinely believe that even popular Windows apps like IrfanView
> and ACDSee are color managed these days. That, of course, doesn't
> cover tons of crap freeware and shareware apps that still have their
> use, but then you don't have to recommend tons of apps. Pick one or
> two that are known to work. Habits are habits, but if a user wants to
> keep dealing with a crappy application instead of a working one, that
> means he doesn't want to be educated and hence there is nothing you
> can do for him.
> 
> Alexandre Prokoudine
> http://libregraphicsworld.org
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